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Vacancies are increasing, technological evolution is accelerating, and identifying top candidates is trickier than ever.

For over ten years, Trust in SODA have taken a community-led approach to recruitment, and in that time, we’ve helped thousands of incredible software engineers find meaningful work in a world that won’t sit still.

Between the influx of candidates and the widespread adoption of AI, software engineering is in a transition period, making it difficult for hiring managers to conduct prompt searches. This is where we come in.

Our specialist software engineer recruiters have the knowledge, means, and community network needed to pinpoint top software engineering talent in a turbulent tech market.

We provide proven full-service permanent and contract talent solutions across the UK, Ireland, the US, Switzerland, Germany, and Luxembourg. Whether you’re hoping to build out an entire software engineering function, jumpstart your latest project, or move into your first interim software engineering job, the Trust in SODA team is here to help.

Want to know more? Contact the team today to find out how we can support your hiring needs. 

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San Francisco, United States
Software Engineer
Role Title:  Number of vacancies:    Backend Engineer / Product Engineer Backend engineering is the immediate priority. Applied AI graduate candidates also welcomed (need to qualify more) Initially 2–3 hires, with scope to expand the partnership based on candidate quality.  Location: WFH Policy: Relocation: Right to work:   San Francisco. Exact office location and any flexibility to be confirmed. Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates. Specific visa routes to be confirmed. To be confirmed. Candidates must be comfortable with an intensive startup environment, including occasional weekend work About Wajo:   Wajo builds proactive, selflearning action agents that go beyond recommendations and complete real-world tasks. Fo (core product), their first consumer agent, can book appointments, coordinate vendors, handle travel changes, place orders, and also hire agenthuman teams to do things it can’t. Teams can also build agents for business operations and customer care. Earlystage AI company led by Shivani, whose background includes engineering leadership at Google DeepMind. The team includes engineers from Google, Amazon and other leading technology companies. The company is expanding its engineering team and targeting exceptionally strong, handson engineers. Funding is in place, although the amount, stage and details were not disclosed.   Role responsibilities:   Build and ship backend systems and product features, taking ownership from initial requirements through launch. Develop infrastructure that supports the company’s next stage of growth. Solve technical problems independently and deliver quickly. Maintain a strong focus on security and protecting customer information. For product engineering hires, develop a deep understanding of the product and contribute to user growth. Specific projects, deliverables and first 30/60/90day expectations to be confirmed.   Team Structure: Reporting Lines:     Flat engineering organisation with substantial individual ownership. To be confirmed. Rianna Zhou, Chief of Staff, is the initial recruitment contact. Shivani conducts the final founder interview. Essentials skills & experience:    Exceptional handson engineering ability, with strong coding, problem-solving and technical reasoning. Ability to own substantial features or systems independently, end to end. Strong backend and infrastructure capability for the immediate priority hires. Golang experience, engineers can interview in whatever language they like but must use Golang when joining High drive, speed of execution and comfort with startup ambiguity and workload. Security awareness and care for customer data. Ability to demonstrate technical depth in interviews, beyond an impressive CV. Desirable skills & experience:     Experience building and operating systems at significant scale. The founding engineering team specifically highlighted this preference. Experience combining strong engineering standards from Big Tech with startup pace and ownership. Earlystage or founding engineering experience. Strong academic background from a leading university, although this is not a requirement. Applied AI experience. Product judgement and experience building features that support user growth. Salary:   Not disclosed. Rianna described compensation as highly competitive among startups, with internal guidelines based on candidate level. Sell of the role:   Work directly with Shivani, whose background includes Google DeepMind engineering leadership. Join one of the most ambitious technically teams with experience at leading technology companies. Take substantial ownership of features, infrastructure and launches. Help shape an earlystage AI product as the business scales. Competitive startup compensation and equity. Fast interview process, potentially reaching an offer within one week. Interview process: Submission process:   Initial screening with Rianna. Coding / algorithms interview, described as LeetCodestyle. Infrastructure / system design assessment and further technical or product deep dive, tailored to the role. Final founder interview with Shivani. Typically 2–3 technical interviews between the initial screen and founder conversation. Interviews may be approximately 30 minutes each and can be grouped on the same day. Strong candidates may receive an offer within one week. Candidates can use their preferred coding language. AI tool usage and any onsite or work-trial requirement to be confirmed. The process remains flexible as the company develops its hiring approach.   Submit qualified CVs to Rianna with a concise overview covering technical achievements, suitability, motivation and practical requirements. A shared Slack channel was agreed as the communication route. Start date:   Hiring is urgent. Individual start dates depend on candidate availability and notice periods. Terms and partnership type agreed:   25% contingent Role Title:  Number of vacancies:    Backend Engineer / Product Engineer Backend engineering is the immediate priority. Applied AI graduate candidates also welcomed (need to qualify more) Initially 2–3 hires, with scope to expand the partnership based on candidate quality.  Location: WFH Policy: Relocation: Right to work:   San Francisco. Exact office location and any flexibility to be confirmed. Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates. Specific visa routes to be confirmed. To be confirmed. Candidates must be comfortable with an intensive startup environment, including occasional weekend work About Wajo:   Wajo builds proactive, selflearning action agents that go beyond recommendations and complete real-world tasks. Fo (core product), their first consumer agent, can book appointments, coordinate vendors, handle travel changes, place orders, and also hire agenthuman teams to do things it can’t. Teams can also build agents for business operations and customer care. Earlystage AI company led by Shivani, whose background includes engineering leadership at Google DeepMind. The team includes engineers from Google, Amazon and other leading technology companies. The company is expanding its engineering team and targeting exceptionally strong, handson engineers. Funding is in place, although the amount, stage and details were not disclosed.   Role responsibilities:   Build and ship backend systems and product features, taking ownership from initial requirements through launch. Develop infrastructure that supports the company’s next stage of growth. Solve technical problems independently and deliver quickly. Maintain a strong focus on security and protecting customer information. For product engineering hires, develop a deep understanding of the product and contribute to user growth. Specific projects, deliverables and first 30/60/90day expectations to be confirmed.   Team Structure: Reporting Lines:     Flat engineering organisation with substantial individual ownership. To be confirmed. Rianna Zhou, Chief of Staff, is the initial recruitment contact. Shivani conducts the final founder interview. Essentials skills & experience:    Exceptional handson engineering ability, with strong coding, problem-solving and technical reasoning. Ability to own substantial features or systems independently, end to end. Strong backend and infrastructure capability for the immediate priority hires. Golang experience, engineers can interview in whatever language they like but must use Golang when joining High drive, speed of execution and comfort with startup ambiguity and workload. Security awareness and care for customer data. Ability to demonstrate technical depth in interviews, beyond an impressive CV. Desirable skills & experience:     Experience building and operating systems at significant scale. The founding engineering team specifically highlighted this preference. Experience combining strong engineering standards from Big Tech with startup pace and ownership. Earlystage or founding engineering experience. Strong academic background from a leading university, although this is not a requirement. Applied AI experience. Product judgement and experience building features that support user growth. Salary:   Not disclosed. Rianna described compensation as highly competitive among startups, with internal guidelines based on candidate level. Sell of the role:   Work directly with Shivani, whose background includes Google DeepMind engineering leadership. Join one of the most ambitious technically teams with experience at leading technology companies. Take substantial ownership of features, infrastructure and launches. Help shape an earlystage AI product as the business scales. Competitive startup compensation and equity. Fast interview process, potentially reaching an offer within one week. Interview process: Submission process:   Initial screening with Rianna. Coding / algorithms interview, described as LeetCodestyle. Infrastructure / system design assessment and further technical or product deep dive, tailored to the role. Final founder interview with Shivani. Typically 2–3 technical interviews between the initial screen and founder conversation. Interviews may be approximately 30 minutes each and can be grouped on the same day. Strong candidates may receive an offer within one week. Candidates can use their preferred coding language. AI tool usage and any onsite or work-trial requirement to be confirmed. The process remains flexible as the company develops its hiring approach.   Submit qualified CVs to Rianna with a concise overview covering technical achievements, suitability, motivation and practical requirements. A shared Slack channel was agreed as the communication route. Start date:   Hiring is urgent. Individual start dates depend on candidate availability and notice periods. Terms and partnership type agreed:   25% contingent
Joe DukesJoe Dukes
London, United Kingdom
Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer (AI Infra) Remote UK Job Role As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on technical leader at the heart of our engineering organisation, owning the design, delivery, and reliability of our most critical infrastructure. You’ll drive the automation and continuous improvement of our deployment pipelines, cloud and bare metal environments, and Kubernetes-based orchestration layer — ensuring our platform scales reliably to support high-performance AI and GPU workloads. You’ll set the standard for engineering excellence, partnering with Platform, SRE and Product Engineering teams to align on strategy, shape technical direction, and embed a true DevOps culture across the organisation. Championing infrastructure as code, observability, and a bias toward automation at every layer of the stack, you’ll influence design decisions and cross-team ways of working that raise the bar for how we build and operate systems at scale. What You’ll Do Design, build, and continuously optimise CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to support fast, reliable, and repeatable software delivery. Own and evolve Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and Ansible, ensuring infrastructure is version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and consistently provisioned across dev, staging, and production. Manage and maintain hosted application environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and smooth deployment of services into production. Partner closely with Go engineers to deeply understand their development workflows and release processes, identifying and removing friction points that slow delivery. Own and continuously improve the observability stack — from instrumenting services with logging, metrics, and tracing, to building dashboards, alerts, and runbooks that enable proactive detection and faster resolution. Measure and improve developer experience and productivity. Take responsibility for the continuous delivery pipeline for build and deployment. Streamline and standardise the release process for Go services, working with engineering teams to implement versioning strategies, automated testing gates, and progressive delivery patterns such as canary or blue-green deployments. Identify and eliminate bottlenecks across the software development lifecycle, reducing the time between a commit and a production deployment without compromising quality or stability. Champion a self-service DevOps culture, enabling development teams to own their deployments and operational concerns through well-designed tooling, documentation, and guardrails. What You Bring Proven experience in DevOps engineering and best practices. Deep understanding of Kubernetes, Helm and other containerisation-related tooling. Demonstrable scripting ability in Python, Shell and Ansible. Strong knowledge of branching and deployment strategies, including the use of Git-based version control. Experience with CI/CD workflows, observability, security and automation best practices. Why Join Us? What sets us apart is our blend of modern technology, competitive benefits, and an open, welcoming work culture that enables our people to thrive. Here are just some of the great things you can expect: 25 days of annual leave. A culture that emphasises results over hierarchy, process and ego: we place great emphasis on the quality, ingenuity and creativity of work. Open communication and regular feedback: we value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy and a growth mindset makes us better together. Dedicated learning time to focus on new skills, projects or interests outside your day-to-day job. Health & wellbeing support, including private medical insurance. A cycle-to-work scheme, as part of our commitment to building a sustainable business. Subscription access to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps. Participation in the company shares programme. Enhanced parental pay & leave.
Adam BrinkleyAdam Brinkley
Dublin, Ireland
Senior QA Engineer
Senior QA Engineer – Contract Position – HIRING ASAP Location: Dublin, Ireland – 2/3 days per week in office Start Date: ASAP Duration: 6 month contract with extension Daily Rate: €400 - €470 per day Summary   We are hiring a Senior QA Engineer (Contractor) to join a high-performing engineering team building real-time, high-availability payment systems. This is a hands-on role requiring strong technical depth, ownership, and the ability to improve quality from day one. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience across test automation, API testing, UI testing, integration testing, performance testing, SQL validation, mocking/stubbing, CI/CD, and production-quality engineering practices. They should be able to clearly demonstrate their technical decision-making with practical examples. Requirements   5+ years of professional experience in software testing / quality engineering. Strong experience in test automation for web applications, APIs, and distributed systems. Hands-on experience with: Java Cucumber REST API testing SQL Server / SQL TestNG Experience with: Postman WireMock / Mountebank or similar mocking / service virtualisation tools JMeter or other performance testing tools CI/CD tools such as Jenkins Version control such as Git / BitBucket Docker and Kubernetes Cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure Elastic / Kibana or equivalent monitoring / log analysis tools Responsibilities   Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and test suites for web, API, and service-based applications. Own testing activities across the full SDLC: requirements analysis ? test design ? automation ? execution ? defect management ? release validation. Build and maintain robust automated regression coverage for API, integration, and end-to-end workflows. Validate quality in low-latency, highly available systems with a strong focus on stability, accuracy, and production readiness. Collaborate closely with developers, product teams, DevOps, and other QA engineers to ensure quality outcomes across multiple teams. Drive defects and quality issues to resolution with a strong ownership mindset. Contribute to test strategy, quality standards, release confidence, and continuous improvement initiatives. Review applications and test coverage proactively to identify quality gaps, flaky tests, test data issues, performance risks, and automation opportunities. Support production validation, issue triage, and root cause analysis where needed.
Nathan Peters Nathan Peters
United Kingdom, United Kingdom
IOS Developer
Join a fast-growing AI start-up on a mission to make advanced technology accessible to everyone. This team is building the next generation of AI-powered apps for people who want intelligent help without complex prompting. Their first product is an agent-first mobile communication app, bringing intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows. The focus is on AI that is reliable, proactive and easy to trust. The Opportunity As an iOS Engineer, you’ll own the iOS client experience: how AI feels, responds and performs in users’ hands. This is not a thin integration role. You’ll build a production-grade app where AI interactions are central to the product, working closely with backend and ML engineers on API design and system behaviour. What You’ll Be Doing Build and maintain the iOS app in Swift and SwiftUI Integrate AI-powered features through backend APIs Design UX patterns for AI, including loading states, streaming responses, retries and fallbacks Optimise performance, memory usage and battery efficiency Capture user signals and feedback to support AI evaluation and iteration Keep App Store quality, stability and production reliability high Detect and resolve production issues early, with clear root-cause analysis What They’re Looking For 3+ years of iOS development in Swift Hands-on experience integrating AI-powered features into mobile apps Strong understanding of async/await, concurrency and background tasks Solid performance and memory optimisation skills Experience shipping and maintaining production iOS apps Comfort designing for latency, partial failure and non-deterministic AI behaviour Strong intuition for AI UX patterns and user trust Exposure to CoreML or on-device ML, and familiarity with feature flags or remote config, are a plus Tech Stack Swift • SwiftUI • SPM • SQL / NoSQL • TensorFlow Lite Why Join? Fully remote working Salary up to £100k, plus potential equity High ownership and autonomy from day one Small, high-talent-density team that makes decisions collectively Direct influence on product direction Fast-moving environment with rapid decision-making and deployment cycles A quick, transparent interview process: 3 stages, 4 at most The chance to bring practical AI to billions of everyday users If you’re excited by AI and building products from scratch, I’d love to speak with you. Feel free to reach out directly for more information.
Sophie McGoldrickSophie McGoldrick
Zurich, Switzerland
WebMethods System Administrator / Configuration Engineer
WebMethods System Administrator / Configuration Engineer   €540 per day | Remote across Europe | Initial 6–12 Month Contract Are you an experienced webMethods specialist looking for your next contract? This is an opportunity to take ownership of enterprise integration platforms, support critical manufacturing data flows, and drive efficient, secure and scalable file-transfer solutions across multiple sites. We’re looking for a skilled WebMethods System Administrator / Configuration Engineer to manage platform configuration, system administration, security, performance and production support. You’ll play a key role in ensuring reliable plant-to-SAP file transfers while improving delivery through standardisation, automation and streamlined deployment processes. Key Responsibilities Install, configure and administer webMethods Integration Server, API Gateway and Trading Networks. Manage development, QA, UAT and production environments. Maintain platform security, authentication, access controls, certificates and vulnerability remediation. Apply patches, upgrades and configuration changes, ensuring minimal disruption to operations. Monitor system performance, troubleshoot incidents and optimise platform reliability. Support high availability, clustering, disaster recovery, backups and recovery testing. Manage deployments, releases, rollbacks and environment migrations. Provide L2/L3 production support, root-cause analysis and corrective actions. Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures and compliance records. Leverage scripting and automation to improve repetitive interface configuration and file-transfer validation. Essential Skills & Experience Strong hands-on experience administering webMethods Integration Server and API Gateway. Experience with Trading Networks configuration and package management. Solid Windows/Linux administration, networking, DNS, firewalls and load balancing knowledge. Strong understanding of Java/JVM configuration, memory management and performance troubleshooting. Experience with TLS/SSL certificates, keystores, truststores and authentication mechanisms. Knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS, REST/SOAP, SFTP, JDBC and messaging integrations. Experience supporting SAP and external application connectivity. Familiarity with monitoring, incident management, release management, backup/recovery and disaster recovery. Scripting and deployment automation experience. Contract Details Rate: €540 per day Location: Remote across Europe Duration: Initial 6–12 months If you have strong webMethods administration experience and enjoy working on complex integration environments where reliability, security and automation are essential, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to discuss this opportunity and take the next step in your contracting career.
Michelle Sutherland Michelle Sutherland
Sutton, United Kingdom
Technical Support Specialist
IT Support Analyst – 12-Month Contract – Hiring ASAP! Location: London – Hybrid (2–3 days onsite) Duration: 12 Months Day Rate: £250 per day – Outside IR35 Start Date: ASAP Ready to Take the Next Step in Your IT Career? We're looking for a motivated IT Support Analyst to join a leading global investment organisation on an exciting 12-month contract! This is a fantastic opportunity for someone early in their IT career who enjoys solving technical problems, supporting users and working with the latest workplace technologies. You'll be joining a friendly, collaborative IT team where you'll gain valuable hands-on experience across 1st and 2nd Line Support in a fast-paced corporate environment. What You'll Be Doing Providing hands-on 1st and 2nd Line IT Support to employees. Setting up, configuring and deploying laptops and devices. Troubleshooting Windows, Microsoft 365, hardware and software issues. Supporting new starters with IT onboarding and equipment setup. Managing IT support tickets and maintaining IT inventory. Working alongside experienced technical specialists to resolve issues. What We're Looking For 0–2 years' experience in IT Support, Service Desk or Desktop Support. Good working knowledge of Windows and Microsoft 365. Familiarity with ticketing systems such as ServiceNow, Jira or Zendesk. Basic networking and troubleshooting knowledge. A proactive attitude, strong communication skills and a passion for IT. Corporate IT support experience would be a bonus! Why Apply? This is a great opportunity to build your technical skills, gain experience within a respected global investment business and work alongside an experienced IT team. With a 12-month contract, hybrid working and £250 per day Outside IR35, this is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop their career in IT Support. Interested? Apply today for immediate consideration!
Nathan Peters Nathan Peters
London, United Kingdom
Senior Data and AI Architect Lead
Description   Senior Data and AI Architect Description Do you want to work to make Power for Good? We're the world's largest independent renewable energy company, guided by a simple yet powerful vision to create a future where everyone has access to affordable, zero carbon energy. We know that achieving our ambitions would be impossible without our people. Because we're tackling some of the world's toughest problems, we need the very best people to help us. They're our most important asset so that's why we continually invest in them. RES is a family with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal and professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their careers they're at. We can promise you rewarding work which makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing, global network and opportunities to grow personally and professionally. Our competitive package offers a wide range of benefits and rewards. Locations: UK - Kings Langley or Glasgow. Spain - Albacete or Madrid. Summary / Purpose of the Role Are you ready to architect the future of data and AI at one of the world's leading renewable energy businesses? At RES, we are looking for a Senior Data and AI Architect to design and build our next-generation Microsoft Fabric and Azure data estate, and to spearhead the engineering of the autonomous AI agents and intelligent services that operate within it. Reporting to the Head of Data and Analytics, you will own the forward-looking strategic and conceptual design of our global platform. This role combines elite enterprise data warehousing architecture with cutting-edge AI systems design. You will focus entirely on defining future-state architecture, establishing data standards optimized for LLM reasoning, and coding multi-agent orchestration frameworks. You will work in lockstep with our established Platform Operations team—who handle the day-to-day platform run, infrastructure maintenance, and legacy migrations—allowing you to serve as the ultimate technical authority for data and AI innovation across RES. Key Accountabilities Own Strategic Platform Direction: Define the target-state data and AI architecture, governance frameworks, and data modelling standards across Microsoft Fabric and Azure, aligned with global business goals. Design the Data-to-AI Interface: Establish how enterprise data is structurally modelled (using star schemas, semantic layers, dimensional modelling, and knowledge ontologies) to ensure autonomous AI agents can search, retrieve, and reason over data reliably without hallucinating. Pioneer Agentic AI Services: Lead the hands-on design, coding, and prototyping of multi-agent workflows and custom AI services; set rigorous automated evaluation frameworks, non-deterministic testing standards, and compliance gates. Set Engineering Standards & Code Patterns: Provide senior technical authority in Python, SQL, advanced software engineering, and LLM orchestration to the wider team. Review production code and build reusable code repositories to ensure quality engineering solutions. Drive Platform Capabilities: Identify, evaluate, and prototype emerging technologies and agentic tools (such as Model Context Protocol servers and vector databases), bringing highly automated new capabilities into our global data product portfolio. Architect Financial Efficiency: Design cloud data and AI patterns for optimal consumption efficiency, establishing best practices for token management, semantic caching, and compute cost optimization. Enforce Trust & Security by Design: Partner with Cyber Security and the Data & AI Governance Lead to ensure data privacy, access boundaries (RBAC), and prompt-injection defence mechanisms are embedded across all agents. Influence Global Leadership: Advise senior IT executives and business leaders on complex technical priorities, helping guide investment choices around data architecture, software engineering, and AI automation. Experience Required Enterprise Platform Design: 7+ years of demonstrated track record designing enterprise data architectures and data warehouses at scale to create organizational efficiency. Strategic & Conceptual Direction: Deep experience setting architectural reference designs, modeling standards, and technical direction across modern cloud data estates. Hands-on AI & Software Engineering: Proven, deep experience writing clean, modular code in Python, SQL, and consuming complex REST APIs. Must have hands-on experience building, testing, and deploying custom LLM agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, or LangChain) in production. Modern Cloud Data Tooling: Strong technical experience with Azure data and AI ecosystems (Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Search) or equivalent components on alternative enterprise cloud platforms. Data Governance & Security Knowledge: Solid understanding of how data cataloging, lineage, and privacy compliance integrate with autonomous AI systems. Executive Communication & Leadership: Demonstrated ability to articulate complex technical strategies, lead workshops, run steering groups, and influence senior executive stakeholders. Exceptional Engineering Judgment: A proven track record of understanding the limitations of generative AI, demonstrating high judgment on where AI automation adds value versus where deterministic engineering must be used. Educational Foundation: Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, data analytics, or equivalent deep, hands-on senior career experience. Why RES? A genuinely global remit: You will set the architecture and build the AI for a data platform used across a worldwide renewable energy business. Work at the intersection where data, analytics and AI meet: Your architecture and the agents you build will drive business outcomes across the globe in renewable energy. A modern, cloud-first stack: Azure, Fabric, Purview, MCP servers, and significant innovation investment. A collaborative, growing data and analytics function: Scope to shape how analytics and AI evolves for data and platforms. Join a brand new, agile team: Be at the heart of AI, innovation, Next Gen technology, and driving competitive advantage for RES. Agentic AI leadership: Set the blueprint for how RES builds and operates autonomous agents on our platform.
Adam Whitehurst  Adam Whitehurst
London, United Kingdom
Full Stack Engineer
Full Stack Developer – TypeScript / React / Node.js Location: Portsmouth, England Rate: £410 per day, Outside IR35 Contract: Initial 6 months, with potential extension Start Date: On or around 4 November 2026 Security Clearance: Active SC clearance or above On-site: 1–2 days per fortnight The Role We are seeking an experienced Full Stack Developer to join a team on a greenfield project. You will build a new TypeScript codebase from scratch, developing across the front-end and backend while contributing to technical architecture, engineering standards and production deployments. Working alongside the Technical Lead and wider team, you will have the autonomy to shape solutions and deliver secure, scalable and accessible applications. Key Skills & Experience 5+ years of professional software development experience. Strong TypeScript skills across front-end and backend development. React, modern CSS and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility. Node.js and REST API development. PostgreSQL, schema design and query optimisation. Unit, integration and end-to-end testing. Git, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred) and Docker. OIDC authentication and authorisation, ideally with Keycloak. Experience working in Agile teams and communicating technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders. Desirable: MOD/Defence experience, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Helm, Terraform and observability tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
Michelle Sutherland Michelle Sutherland
APTIV
20
Roles Placed
Aptiv, a global tech leader with over 190,000 employees in 46 countries, is developing safer and more sustainable vehicles, including autonomous driving technology. They faced challenges sourcing and retaining top talent in a competitive market with high demand and rising pay rates for specialised tech candidates. Partnering with Trust in SODA provided access to a wider talent pool through an expansive community network. This partnership has positively impacted Aptiv's ability to meet client demand by reducing the time to fill and securing high-quality hires through a wider talent pool.
Aptiv
ARM
6
Key Hires
100%
Fill Rate
Arm, a global leader in computing technology, sought to fill niche roles and partnered with Trust in SODA based on a recommendation from an RPO provider. SODA collaborated with Arm to refine their hiring process, focusing on both technical skills and cultural fit. This involved weekly market insights, qualification calls, and onsite visits to understand Arm's culture. The improved process resulted in a 1.9:1 CV-to-interview ratio and a 1:1 fill rate for all vacancies since May 2023.
arm
BUPA
2:1
CV to Interview Ratio
14 Days
Time to Hire
5
Key Hires Made

With over 50 million customers worldwide, Bupa is a leading multinational healthcare company that provides a range of health and care services, including insurance, hospitals, and clinics.

Our relationship with Bupa began through a personal recommendation – having supported an engineering manager earlier in his career journey, we were his first port of call when he moved to Bupa Dental and needed to build out his team. Having built a foundation of trust over the course of several years, Trust in SODA were retained on an exclusive basis. Working across London and Bristol, we successfully delivered five key placements critical to Bupa’s technology function:

  • QA Engineer
  • Lead User Researcher
  • Full Stack Developer
  • Data Engineer
  • .Net Developer
Bupa
Bupa

Dominika and the Team are fantastic, and will always be my first port of call when we begin hiring!

Bupa
Bupa
Engineering & Architecture Manager
CAPGEMINI
169
Placements
118
Permanent
51
Contract
For over 50 years, Capgemini have delivered transformative business solutions to their clients through leading-edge tech, industry expertise and a highly talented workforce. They faced challenges attracting top talent in a candidate-short market, compounded by UK mobility and security clearance requirements. Partnering with Trust in SODA, Capgemini benefited from dedicated resources, tailored searches, specialized teams, and a global network. SODA quickly became a top supplier, exceeding hiring targets annually and supporting high-volume projects for major clients like Deliveroo, John Lewis, EDF, and public sector organisations.
Capgemini

‘Trust in Soda were one of the key suppliers in relation to both quality and volume of candidates successfully placed.

Communication was key to this success, and our working relationship only strengthened as the year progressed, with mutual respect and honesty being the theme of conversations.’

COMAVE GLOBAL
38
Permanent Hires
SODA Max
Hiring Solution
12
Contract Hires

ComAve was experiencing serious growth and had no talent or HR function. Trust in SODA (part of Trinnovo Group) started with recruiting the HR team and then became the talent function. Setting the strategy for all five of their businesses, we provided a linked ecosystem for talent attraction and management. 

We successfully recruited in 38 roles across Sales, Technology, Engineering, Operations and Marketing, from Junior to C Suite including the COO, across Europe, covering Eastern Europe, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and France, as well as the UK.

One of the most important requirements to our client was speed of delivery, and the SODA team have delivered every time. Our EHS solution streamlines the recruitment process to secure business-critical hires faster.

Comave Global
Sarah Lee

Lauren made it a great experience!! She understood from minute 1 what I needed and was super quick finding the perfect person. She was always available, answered all my questions and made me and the candidate feel super attended all the time."

Sarah Lee
Sarah Lee
People Director
DELIVERY HERO
46
Hires

As Delivery Hero was going through a period of growth due to the internationalisation of their product offering, they onboarded SODA as an embedded partner to assist with reducing time to hire and accessing international talent pools. Working closely with internal stakeholders, we worked across multiple business units and were successful in making 46 hires across React, Mobile, Engineering Management, Go, Flutter, Product, Scala, Data Science, Data Engineers, and MLOps.

Delivery Hero
DELOITTE
57
Key Hires
Trust in SODA has been partnered with Deloitte Ireland for over five years, and in that time, we've made 57 hires across tech and finance roles. Recognising the challenges of Ireland's tech talent market, Deloitte expanded their partnership to include SODA's Contract team. SODA doubled their candidate database within 12 months using a diversity-focused approach, expanding access to a broader talent pool across key areas like software engineering, DevOps, data, cloud, infrastructure, and creative. Leveraging deep industry knowledge, SODA quickly identified niche talent without compromising quality, becoming Deloitte's top-performing agency.
Deloitte
DIGI2AL
59
Roles Placed
Digi2al, experiencing rapid growth, sought a recruitment partner with expertise in immersive GDS technologies to support project planning. They needed to quickly scale their delivery capability without sacrificing quality to meet client demands. Trust in SODA provided a dedicated team, built virtual talent pools, and proactively completed pre-employment checks to expedite hiring. This collaborative approach resulted in 59 successful placements over 18 months. Ultimately, this partnership enabled Digi2al to expand, pursue new opportunities, and enhance its brand reputation.
Digi2al
DYSON
34
Roles Placed
Dyson, a global tech pioneer, needed to expand its creative and technical teams at its competitive institute in Malmsbury, England. Facing geographical restrictions and a desire to diversify its shortlists, Dyson partnered with the Trust in SODA team. SODA immersed itself in Dyson's culture through on-site visits, then leveraged an international network and market-mapping expertise to fulfil Dyson’s hiring needs on time and in budget.
Dyson

Having placed 34 contract roles, Trust in SODA emerged as one of Dyson’s Top suppliers across Technology & Creative roles. 

FIDELIS
30
Perm & Contract Hires

Fidelis is a specialist insurer and reinsurer with long-standing industry relationships and more than 30 years of underwriting, risk management, claims, and actuarial knowledge.

Our relationship with Fidelis began through our sister brand, Broadgate, who were retained to support on transformation, legal, and compliance-focused roles.

What began as a Broadgate relationship soon evolved into a cross-brand collaboration, with Trust in SODA stepping in to cover Onda’s growing technology needs.

Since then, we’ve made more than 30 successful placements across Tech Architecture, Software Engineering, SQL, PowerApps, QA, Actuarial, Underwriting, Risk, Compliance, FP&A, and Credit Control.

One of the toughest challenges was the requirement for all roles to be based onsite in Dublin, five days a week. By working closely with Onda’s onsite MSP, we streamlined the process, built trust with candidates, and ensured the right skills were secured despite the market constraints.

Fidelis
G.NETWORK
32
Critical Hires
G.Network, upgrading London's internet with full-fibre broadband, needed to rapidly scale its team to support its ambitious expansion. Facing the challenges of hyper-growth, they partnered with Trust in SODA to optimize their hiring process. SODA provided a steady talent pipeline of high-quality candidates through dedicated resources, diversity-focused searches, and market insights. Over two years, SODA delivered 32 mission-critical hires across DevOps, Design & Change, Software Engineering, and Infrastructure, enabling G.Network to accelerate its scaling efforts.
G.Network
John Porter

‘Adam, Viki, Gabs and the wider team at Soda have been highly instrumental in enabling our scaling plans over the last few years. They have delivered some high calibre and strategic resources to our business quickly and are always ready to support our needs when required. As a client, I always feel that I have their complete focus and attention. I would highly recommend their services’.’

John Porter
John Porter
Head of Talent Acquisition
GUIDANT GLOBAL
129
Roles Placed
17
Brands Serviced
Guidant Global takes a creative approach to talent management. Having delivered bespoke recruitment solutions to clients all over the globe, Guidant Global is breaking the mould in the MSP, RPO, and SOW markets. To meet mounting demand and alleviate subsequent pressure on candidate pay rates, Guidant Global turned to the team at Trust in SODA to deliver complex hiring projects to their end clients. To date, the SODA squad have provided talent solutions across technology and enablement for seventeen of Guidant Global’s customers, including Dyson, Burberry, Pfizer, The AA, and Novartis. The seamless integration of Trust in SODA’s permanent and contract teams has created dependable hiring coverage across DevOps, Software Engineering, Cloud and Infrastructure, Data, and Creative roles.
Guidant Global
David Miranda

Trinnovo Group is a valued and trusted partner in our never-ending quest to find talent. 

David Miranda
David Miranda
Talent Consultant
NATWEST BOXED
23
Key Hires
Natwest Boxed, the UK's leading banking-as-a-service provider, needed to rapidly expand its team by 30 people in two months to support their growing customer base. They needed to fill hard-to-reach roles across SDET, Engineering Management, Java Development, and Product Management. Partnering with Trust in SODA, they leveraged a dedicated team of five recruiters. This collaboration resulted in over 100 shortlisted candidates, 45 interviews, and 23 successful placements within the tight two-month timeframe.
Natwest Boxed
Mike Jetson

NatWest Boxed and Trust in Soda have built a successful partnership focused on specialist engineering recruitment, ensuring access to top-tier talent. Together, they have prioritized diverse hiring, helping NatWest Boxed strengthen its engineering teams with a more inclusive and high-performing workforce.

Mike Jetson
Mike Jetson
(Talent Acquisition Lead - NatWest Boxed & Mettle by NatWest)
ONDA
2:1
CV to Interview Ratio

Founded in 2022, Onda is committed to providing customers with simpler and more effective cyber insurance coverage in the face of increasingly sophisticated threats.

Having previously worked with Trust in SODA’s consultants at a previous organisation, Onda’s hiring manager was confident in the value we could bring and chose to engage us for a new mandate.

Onda set an exceptionally high bar for candidate quality and needed a partner who could deliver critical hires in a tight timeframe, all while competing with other projects in the market.

We partnered with Onda on an exclusive basis, enabling us to carry out a thorough search across our community networks and the broader market.

With regular catchups alongside the TA team, we quickly aligned on the role requirements, including candidate profiles and culture fit.

By leaning on a deep understanding of Onda’s business imperatives, we successfully secured the two critical hires under demanding market conditions.

Onda
Onda

Trust in SODA has provided great candidates for our company as we start up here in Ireland. It’s been our single source of recruitment and we wouldn’t be where we are today without the hard work put in by the team.’ - VP of Engineering, Onda

Onda
Onda
VP of Engineering
QUANTSPARK

QuantSpark are a strategic analytics and AI consultancy that supercharges its clients’ operating models with advanced technology and bespoke, data-driven products.

After being recommended to QuantSpark by a previous customer, Trust in SODA was engaged alongside competing agencies to deliver a critical leadership role; however, due to SODA’s fast provision of high-quality profiles, the team was soon retained exclusively.

QuantSpark were looking for a blend of deep technical expertise and management experience, and they were operating inside strict budget parameters.

SODA conducted cultural interviews, competitor analysis, market mapping, and technical testing to ensure the right fit for the role, ultimately filling the position on time and in budget.

 

QuantSpark
QuantSpark

SODA provided constant communication and flexibility. Our business has a number of nuances that make recruitment challenging, and the SODA team constantly worked with us to ensure they were providing the best possible service. Not only from a client POV but based on candidate feedback, it was clear that SODA provides a thoughtful candidate experience. The team was flexible on fees and is looking for a long-term relationship. Our business does not typically work with agencies, and I'd be keen to partner with them again on an as-needed basis.

 

QuantSpark
QuantSpark
Talent Manager

MEET THE TEAM

Ryan Hill

Managing Director, SODA

Ryan Jones

Associate Director - US

Adam Brinkley

Business Manager

Dominika Kodadova

Principal Consultant